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What I Meant To Say
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Reality (I'm Tryin' to Understand)
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I Kept Digging
This is a bit of a bio. An introspection of "how did I get here?" There was no plan. People just appeared in my life. The only constant was work ethic and a never say die attitude.
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Send My Body Away
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Let Your Colors Bleed on Past
This is about people who act like they're perfect all the time.
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Highest and Best Use Blues
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A Purple Light
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Promises I Don't Need
Post election mortem blues (revenge i don't want)
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They Call Me Noah
Here's a little environmental country song about the water situation in Lakeway/Bee Cave, Texas. It's aimed at those who keep building and drawing even more water out of the ground and our lakes.
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Raise Your Sails High
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Not My Kind Of People
More words questioning the environmental priorities of our local city council.
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The Clock Keeps On Ticking
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Outside Our Door
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I Think I Know
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It's Inside of Me
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My Shades Don't Say Maybe
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I'm No Tortured Artist
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I'd Like to Be a Gypsy (for Love)
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A Well Runs Dry (while we pray)
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An Unguarded Mind
Once again, there is no calm or holiness in political discourse.
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Hate's Got No Remedy
It's about family and friends hating on each other while the charlatans laugh all the way to the bank.
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What You Choose To Believe
This is about the absolutely pathetic political situation in the United States and how the candidates and media are playing the American people, a purported source of genius and innovation, like a fiddle.
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Yours to Harvest
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The Whale Has Arrived
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Only Water Falls From The Sky
This is about real estate developers destroying our planet by putting in a distribution center were it doesn't belong while the truck drivers get it from all sides.
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Promises Forget
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Not On The Trail
This is about my son in law who just hiked the entire Colorado Trail; a major accomplishment.
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You'll Never Be Like Her Daddy
Country lyrics about how a Dad is the best man a daughter will ever have.
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And She Said
Written for a friend whose mother is in hospice...
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Another Election Blues
I live here in the US, but as they say in South Texas, it's all todo tidato... meaning we're about as lost as we've ever been.
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Faith In Another World
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Only What's Real
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Tell It To My Family
My stepson is hiking about 500 miles in Colorado. This is about him... his father passed on about ten years ago. I know he's proud of his son. I was lucky to marry his son's mother five years later and I'm just telling the story here.
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All The Love That Lasts
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A Most Political Animal
This is about the zealotry and uncompromising nature of our political climate. These words could describe anybody pushing their political obsessions towards the rest of us.
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Does Science Care About Me?
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A Shot of Life
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Bordertown
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God Already Told Her She Can Go
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If It Ain't There
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You Can Only Presume
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You Still Matter
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I Took a Step Back
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Why Didn't We Know?
Written because the mother of a long time friend passed away... the lyrical rhythm is similar to the song Caroline No by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher.
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nature strikes
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The Unknown Flood
This is a picture of murky origin... sometime in the 1950's. It's the rising Rio Grande underneath the International Bridge between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. Poncho Ruiz of Laredo posted it in Facebook... My words follow...
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My Darkness Does Not Exist
This poem is not a self-congratulatory sort. It instead recognizes that the blessings in my life have turned on the light. I am not blameless of wrong doing or without mistakes having been made. But, you know, I can't complain so I won't. There are others more worthy of vocalizing their troubles.
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God Doesn't Need Our Help
This is about anyone who thinks God commands us to wage war...
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Even That Kiss
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Holding Back (open up)
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A Drink or Ten
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Maybe It Is A Prayer
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Judgment Call
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What's Left (but sad words spoken)
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Tell His Wife
A friend of mine took his own life last week...
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Why Do We Look?
I'm witnessing a total eclipse of the sun here in Central Texas.
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Don't Pay Me No Rent
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Either Or
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A Baby Knows
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It Ain't Easy To Say Goodbye
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Artificial (doesn't it bother you brother?)
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Two Steps Behind (a parting wink)
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It's My Problem
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All I Ever Find
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What Was Once Alone
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Your Green Meadows
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My Heart's Conception
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Taking Candy From A Baby
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A Widow
It's about marrying someone who lost their first spouse...
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Activist
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(in spite of it all) You Fill My Cup
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I Made It So Obvious
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The Joys of Me and You
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The Death of Emotion
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Go Ahead Ask me
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Is It Hard to Find?
Just another day working from home...
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Let's Do Casual
Country song lyrics about a man and his greatest love stepping back together from the stresses of life.
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A Thousand Doors
This is about the men digging graves in a cemetery. I witnessed it yesterday...
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He Wrote The Wrong Story
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Turning Myself In
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A Very Kind Of A Lion
An acquaintance from work just passed away. He was a black man...
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How I Want To Be
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Make Babies No More
It's about war... it's about random shootings... it's about hate...
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Do You Have Faith in Us?
As another Christmas approaches, the world continues its turmoil. Is it a matter of God believing in his creation? Or do we continue to hope for some sort of savior as we are unable to care for ourselves?
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A Plate of Food
People I know are dying...
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As We Separate
An old friend, as far back as 1975, suddenly passed away... there was no warning...
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After the Weather
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A Most Vengeful Rosary
Blood in the holy land...
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The Painting Says No
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I'm Holding Back
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The Blessings of a Man
This is intended to humble myself way down... you don't have to believe in God; real or metaphor, it's the idea of a higher power or way of being that I cannot live up to.
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I Saw a Bee
I live in the country. I went on my back porch and saw a bee, working alone, on my deck.
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Scattered in the Wind
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I'll Tell You What's True
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The Fantasy of Peace
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Hope and Despair
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This Chance to Be
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An Ode to Baseball
This is about how my love of baseball was fostered by my father.
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But First Dessert
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A Gallery
A visit to an art gallery...
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The Only Fruit We Can Peel
War. What else?
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How Long Will It Last
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The Mystery of My Ways
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It's Your Moment
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I Said Something
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Believe in Them
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Is It My Dust
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Only Pieces
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What Others Don't Know
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It's All Been Said
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To Carry On
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The Entirety of our Dreams
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the king of same
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The Path Ahead
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What Leaves Need
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Artificial Bomb (atomic intelligence)
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As Strength Will Be
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Alright In Your Light
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Realizing My Visions
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How Does It Make You Feel?
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Maybe Don't Tell Me
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A Mass More Than Any Other
This is about a memorial (Catholic Mass) for a man I never met. He was my wife's Uncle.
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In Spite of You
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Another Day Movin'
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Cruise Control (that ain't my heart)
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Yes We Pay
A poem about gentrification and the ruthlessness of the real estate industry in general.
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They Didn't Tell Me
A friend took his own life... nobody told me... I didn't know he was in despair. So many people successfully hide their pain. It's a sad thing...
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there is no border
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You Can't Go Back Home Again
I just discovered that my childhood home has been demolished. Of all the homes in the neighborhood, it was mine that is gone. I will never now why. I lived there from 1963 to 1970.
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Border Trips
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all we have left
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A Common Bondage
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Brush Country Morning
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What Faith May Dare
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Love That Never Tires
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Who Lays Next to You?
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I Am Consequence
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A Most Deadly Beauty
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Am I To Be Believed?
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So Easy to Love
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Never Feel Smaller
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I Got Next
A country song about waiting for a girl who is dating another guy.
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The Things We've Done
Old lovers who know what they have
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The Kind I Never Knew
Loving someone
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I Woke up to You
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Freedom's Consequences
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Worse Than Being Wrong
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A New Way to Say Forever
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The Colours I Have Seen
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Flowers in the Graveyard
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Somebody (Anybody)
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Downtown (Where's the Ground?)
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It Was Me Under My Own Feet
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How I Must Speak To You
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Creator Savior
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A Beacon Blinking
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Rhymes About Crimes
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First Take
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Between Waves
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Give Me Your Sorrow
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I Believe in Miracles
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Believing is Not Always Seeing
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Don't Close Your Eyes On This Kiss
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Uvalde
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I'm Still Fighting It
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Unopened Spaces
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A Human Savior (an Election Cycle)
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A Dream Is All It Takes
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What I Don't Say
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You're Not Avenging (we're just not hearing)
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It Was Time Together
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Nothing to Speak Of
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Sleeping Pill
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Paving Stones (Telling Me)
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Am I Enough For You?
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It Wasn't Just You
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The Point of Attack
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Castles of Fantasy
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Until The Horn Blows
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Don't Be Trapped in Sadness
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Despot
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My Eyes Strayed Too Far
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My Feeling My Choice
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It's Going On Again
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Dreams for Another Day
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A Pacifist Warrior
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Truth is Hard
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Them Too
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A Russian Says No
A piece of empathy, inspired by Russians protesting the invasion of Ukraine, because a poet can never support war.
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Let's Play Church Instead
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Set Them Free
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Checking My Pulse
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Political Truth (Is It Real?)
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Free to Choose
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My Pride at Your Feet
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It Takes a Woman to Make a Christmas
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Simply Thought Instead
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A Salty Heart
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A Blank Canvas
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It's Not Ours